And I was like, “Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I’ll fill 120 hours of my life with something.” So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.
BEN STILLERThere’s always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you’re a fraud after all!
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
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The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
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I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.
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I’m Jewish, but my mom’s Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put as much of myself as possible in Reality Bites, but in terms of my humor, I’m still trying to figure out what my sensibility is. It’s a process, really.
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There’s always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you’re a fraud after all!
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I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.
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I don’t know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, “Oh, you must have had a great childhood.”
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I don’t think know if anything’s going to translate anywhere. You’re making a movie, you hope it’s going to be funny, you can’t think about how it’s going to go over.
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When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can’t go much further because ultimately it’s feeding off of somebody else’s creativity.
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I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
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I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn’t going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.
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The big-name stars . . . are always going to be playing what they’ve played before if they want to remain so-called A-list stars. That’s why someone like Johnny Depp is doing more interesting roles not caring about the size of the movie.
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I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
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I don’t even want to think of myself as an actor because it’s such an insecure place to go.
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Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!
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